Belt retainer



P 6 1930- H. BJORNWALD 1,775,929

BELT RETAINER Filed June 27, 1930 INVENTOR 6 04 as fi/bi/wwuz Patented Sept. 16, 1930 UNITED STATES HOLGER BJORNWALD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BELT RETAINER Refiled for application Serial No. 65,754, filed October 30, 1925.

This application filed June 27, 1930.

Serial No. 484,186.

This invention relates to improvements in belt retainers and constitutes a refiling of application, Serial N 0. 65,754, filed October 30, 1925.

Belt-buckles frequently creep upwardly above the top of the trousers to which they are attached at the junction of the flaps thereof, the supporting function of the belt being thus much impaired, and it is the ob ject of this invention to provide a device which will prevent this upward creeping andsecurely and firmly hold a belt-buckle in its proper place at the top of the trousers, and which, furthermore, may be readily,

quickly and easily mounted on the beltbuckle, preferably, upon the upper rung or bar of the base plate thereof and which will have a rearwardly-extending hook portion readily engageable with and disengageable from the inner end of a button hole usually provided in a pair of trousers for cooperation with a button to fasten the flaps together.

Another object of the invention is to enable a detachable hook member to be pivotally mounted on the conventional belt-buckle and, preferably, to enable said hook member to be readily slipped into the button hole and, furthermore, to provide means combined with said hook member which will be engaged and locked against disengagement from the button hole by the tongue of the conventional belt-buckle.

With these and other objects in view, the

invention comprises the combination of members and arrangement of parts so combined as to co-act and cooperate with each other in the performance of the functions and the accomplishment of the results herein contemplated, and comprises in one of its adaptations the species or preferred form illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a conventional belt-buckle having my retaining hook attachment connected thereto;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view, showing in plan, the upper edge of a pair of trousers with the belt-buckle connected thereto by my retaining hook and engaged by the tongue of the buckle;

Fig. 4 is a view, in perspective, of a beltretaining attachment including the hook mounting and locking parts;

Fig. 5 is a section similar to Fig. 2 indicating a modified form of hook adapted to engage a button; and

F ig. 6 is a perspective view of the buttonengaging hook shown in Fig. 5.

Referring now to these drawings and particularly to Figs. 1 to 4 thereof, 1 indicates a belt-buckle suitably connected at one end of a belt 2 which is, as shown, supported by 5 straps 3 on the trousers having at the front thereof flaps 4, 4t fastened at their upper ends by the conventional means of a button 5 and button hole 6.

The belt-buckle 1 is usually arranged over 7 the button 5 and button hole 6, and in accordance with my invention, a part of this conventional button hole in the trousers is engaged and the buckle is securely anchored in place to prevent any rising or creeping in relation to the trousers. Thus, I pivotally mount on the upper frame part 7 of the buckle 1 so as normally to have a swinging movement inwardly and outwardly, a beltretaining element 8 embodying a retaining s0 hook-portion 9 adapted to be swung or slipped into engagement with the rear end of the button hole 6 when the buckle is being fastened. When this hook so engaged is suitably locked to the buckle, it will prevent any creeping or rising of the belt in relation to the trousers, and will hold the belt and belt buckle from slipping upward over the top edge of the trouser flaps so as to detract from the proper support of the trousers, as well as to become unsightly.

In the preferred embodiment of my invention, the element 8 is provided with a mounting portion 10 having a mouth 11 which may be slipped or sprung over the upper bar 7 of the buckle frame so as to cause a locking engagement therewith and to have a swinging or pivotal movement thereon. Said element 8 also has a tongue 12 depending at the side of the buckle opposite to the loo retaining'hook, which tongue 12, is engaged by the tongue 13 of the buckle when the same is passed through the holes in the beltto retain the said element 8 against outward 5 swinging movement and thus to retain the hook in engagement with the button hole to 7 look the buckle thereto. I r 1 V In Figs. 5 and 6 I have illustrated a modi: fied form of my invention in which a belt-re 'taining element S has an upwardly and ino wardly-extending hook 9- bifur'cated at its o' upper end to provide tines or fingers 9 9 and aslot 9 intermediate the same to permit engagement with the button 5 instead of 15, with the button hole 6 as in Figs. 1 to 4. i In other respects the deviceis similar to that shown in said Figs. 1 to 4.

Having described my invention, I claim An attachment for belt-buckles embodying a buckle frame and tongue, comprising a I strip of metal bent intermediate'its ends to provide a pivotal mounting portion adapted to slip over a portion'of the buckle frame and to swing pivotally thereon and having 5 at its inner end an inwardly and upwardlyextending hook portion adapted to engage I a conventional fastening element of apair of trousers, said member also being'provide'd atthe opposite side of the mounting portion if 7 e with an integrallo'cking tongue adapted to be engaged by the tongue of the bucklewhen w the same is in fastened position. I In witness whereof, I have signed my name to the foregoing vspecification. 3' I HOLGER BJORNWALD. 

